This blog by Clare Sealy on corridors, ADHD and school culture is one of the best edublogs ever, and should be the last word in discussions about "silent corridors." Please read and share, it's beautiful. primarytimery.com/2018/10/23/cor…

‘North Korea’

New Termly (Autumn) exclusion and suspension data is out today. Here are some thoughts: …ea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Even in the face of a genuine policy disaster, you still have a teaching union trying to blame problems on a lack of resources, rather than the ideologues who brought the situation about. Violence and the threat of violence is common in Scottish schools because it is tolerated.

Trauma etc. Shouldn’t we be making children ‘anti fragile’? Increasingly I see kids crying over nothing, instantly saying they’re ’having a bad day’. I think they’re playing us. The ‘safeguarding’ agenda taken over so much that adults panic/appease at 1st sign a child is unhappy.

Secondhand copies of Progressively Worse by Robert Peal are now available on Amazon. I know that a few years ago people were complaining that they weren't. amzn.to/3vayAzM

Another interesting thing about Direct/Explicit Instruction is that for whatever reason, it has been fiercely opposed by education academics but yet widely embraced by legions of teachers who quietly jettison what they were told in their teacher training year and just get on with

Maybe... just maybe.... coddling students, keeping them from any stressors or challenges in school, and discussing mental health in place of academic content is actually making kids more anxious, more depressed, more fragile. Maybe…

There are two issues with "trauma-informed" approaches to behaviour. 1) Despite the medical-sounding language, they are usually based on pseudoscience, fringe theories or non-evidence-based therapies. 2) They are often an excuse to undermine behaviour management.

A student being flagrantly rude to a teacher should be an earthshaking event. It is in other countries. We live in a teacher-despising culture.

Tom Bennett OBE As long as progressive edtards confuse discipline with tyranny they will repond to every success with howls of dismay

Found the latest school shaming. Can somebody explain why having posters with rules and routines on them is bad for "neurodivergent" children? Actually, don't bother. We all know you don't like adult authority, and this is just an excuse.

The responses to this are just unhinged. What is most noticeable is that "neurodivergent" seems to have become the accepted term to describe the hypothetical children who can't follow a rule an activist doesn't like. x.com/MrDavidScales/…

There are schools where behaviour is so bad that children are unsafe, don’t learn, and scores leave with no quals. You won’t hear about these schools in the press. Instead, you’ll find journalists bashing schools with high expectations. It’s lazy, unfair, and deeply unhelpful.

The probability of me getting a ticket is - thankfully - 0

Probably didn’t happen

Utter nonsense

Tom Sherrington oliver caviglioli Bonus points to anyone who can name the band

Carl Hendrick Paul A. Kirschner Love that Paul is ‘bed peace’

There has never been a generation of young people so colonised by mental health propaganda at such a young age.